BY FRANCIS FARRAGHER TWO of the main organisations involved in the prevention of suicide and self-harm have reported increases in calls from people in rural areas over the late Spring period, coinciding with the...

BY FRANCIS FARRAGHER THERE is growing disenchantment this week among western farm leaders over the handling of the Spring fodder crisis by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney – a €1 million transport subsidy for hay...

BY FRANCIS FARRAGHER DAIRY farmers in Galway probably won’t ‘catch up’ as regards grass, silage and finance until well into next year, following one of the worst Winter/Spring periods in living memory, it was...